p. 167 | What is Said of Us

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 8, 1858

What is Said of Us.

The London Freeman, the able organ of the English Baptists, in summing up the events of the past year has the following severe remarks on republican America. Who will say they are not TRUE?

"The election of Mr. Buchanan was a great triumph of the worst of causes; of slavery and slave-holders over Christianity and Christian churches; and it was gained by the defection of the great Quaker State, Pennsylvania, from the principles of its founder! America is the most degraded, at present, morally and religiously, of all free and Protestant countries. It is the reproach of Evangelical christendom. Her slaveholders defy both God and man, and the freemen of the free States sacrifice their own political freedom and the personal rights of the negro, to a low and noisy political party! The United States are to us a greater grief than Heathendom and Popery, for the names of Christianity and Protestantism, of civil and religious liberty, are blasphemed through them. Oh, that the free States may burst their fetters, get rid of the accursed thing, and join the mother country in heading the march of christianity and civilization!"—Sel.